Re: pack200-gzip Content Coding

Hmm, IETF doesn't appear to have a liaison with the JCP. 

I did find this:
  http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.5.0/docs/guide/deployment/deployment-guide/pack200.html

... where it's pretty clear this is an abuse of Accept-Encoding. I'd hazard a guess that it's deployed somewhat; can some of the more Java-minded people on the list ask around, please?

To me, this seems like a good argument for a slightly higher bar in this registry... and I'm sorely tempted to try to remove this entry, or at least deprecate it, if it's already deployed.


On 08/04/2010, at 11:25 PM, Julian Reschke wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was looking at the content coding IANA registry (<http://www.iana.org/assignments/http-parameters>) and decided to see what pack200-gzip:
> 
>> pack200-gzip   Network Transfer Format for Java Archives           [JSR200]
> 
> is about.
> 
> From what I understand this is a format similar to ZIP/Jar, in which you have a directory structure with named entries. How exactly is this supposed to work as HTTP Content Coding then?
> 
> Has anybody seen this in the wild? Is anybody aware of implementations?
> 
> Best regards, Julian
> 
> 


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